ISBN: 9781451692228 - katrina: after the flood (22 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. One of New York Times s 100 Notable Books of the Year, 2015 One of NPR s Best Books of 2015 Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana on August 29, 2005 journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm s lasting effects not just on the city s geography and infrastructure but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation s great cities. Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina. Then a staff reporter for The New York Times, he was heading into the city to survey the damage. The Interstate was eerily empty. Soldiers in uniform and armed with assault rifles stopped him. Water reached the eaves of houses for as far as the eye could see. Four out of every five houses eighty percent of the city s housing stock had been flooded. Around that same proportion of schools and businesses were wrecked. The weight of all that water on the streets cracked gas and water and sewer pipes all around town and the deluge had drowned almost every power substation and rendered unusable most of the city s water and sewer system. People living in flooded areas of the city could not be expected to pay their property taxes for the foreseeable future. Nor would all those boarded-up businesses 21,000 of the city s 22,000 businesses were still shuttered six months after the storm be contributing their share of sales taxes and other fees to the city s coffers. Six weeks after the storm, the city laid off half its workforce precisely when so many people were turning to its government for help. Meanwhile, cynics both in and out of the Beltway were questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to rebuild a city that sat mostly below sea level. How could the city possibly come back? This book traces the stories of New Orleanians of all stripes politicians and business owners, teachers and bus drivers, poor and wealthy, black and white as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age and reconstruct, change, and in some cases abandon a city that s the soul of this nation.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. One of New York Times s 100 Notable Books of the Year, 2015 One of NPR s Best Books of 2015 Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana on August 29, 2005 journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm s lasting effects not just on the city s geography and infrastructure but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation s great cities. Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina. Then a staff reporter for The New York Times, he was heading into the city to survey the damage. The Interstate was eerily empty. Soldiers in uniform and armed with assault rifles stopped him. Water reached the eaves of houses for as far as the eye could see. Four out of every five houses eighty percent of the city s housing stock had been flooded. Around that same proportion of schools and businesses were wrecked. The weight of all that water on the streets cracked gas and water and sewer pipes all around town and the deluge had drowned almost every power substation and rendered unusable most of the city s water and sewer system. People living in flooded areas of the city could not be expected to pay their property taxes for the foreseeable future. Nor would all those boarded-up businesses 21,000 of the city s 22,000 businesses were still shuttered six months after the storm be contributing their share of sales taxes and other fees to the city s coffers. Six weeks after the storm, the city laid off half its workforce precisely when so many people were turning to its government for help. Meanwhile, cynics both in and out of the Beltway were questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to rebuild a city that sat mostly below sea level. How could the city possibly come back? This book traces the stories of New Orleanians of all stripes politicians and business owners, teachers and bus drivers, poor and wealthy, black and white as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age and reconstruct, change, and in some cases abandon a city that s the soul of this nation.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. THERE IS A "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES.Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana ¿ on August 29, 2005 ¿ journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm¿s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans¿s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm¿s lasting effects not just on the city¿s geography and infrastructure, but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation¿s great cities. In the aftermath of the storm, four out of every five houses were flooded. Schools and businesses were wrecked. The city¿s infrastructure ¿ water, sewage, electricity, transportation ¿ was shattered. Long an American cultural and economic jewel, the city was undergoing triage unprecedented in this nation¿s history. How could this grievously wounded city heal, and what would it take? Rivlin spent much of the last decade answering that question. He interviewed civil leaders and elected officials, business owners and teachers, doctors and construction workers, and followed them as they confronted the consequences and restored, altered, and in some cases, abandoned their city. Their stories reflect the extraordinary toll that this storm exacted and offer a crucial corrective understanding for not only New Orleans, but how we live in America today: the division between rich and poor, the legacy of slavery and racial injustice, the fragility of civility and our means of governance, and the crucial question of what we, as citizens, are owed and what we owe one another. Katrina is a towering work of journalism and a definitive chronicle of a tragedy that we should never forget ¿ as it still has much to teach us. THERE IS A "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES.…

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